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Distillery profile:
The Dalwhinnie distillery is located in the Inverness-shire
or Strathspey area in the western Highlands, but
according to some sources it is a Speyside distillery.
Dalwhinnie was built in 1897 by the Strathspey Distillery
Co Ltd. under the guidance of the investors John
Grant, Alex Mackenzie and George Sellar. The bill
for the construction work was just 10,000 pounds.Production
at Dalwhinnie started in February 1898 - but the
owners soon encountered finacial problems and the
original name 'Strathspey' was changed to 'Dalwhinnie'
when it was sold to new owners; the aptly named...
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